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"If I told you I killed a nigga at 16, would you believe me?Or see me to be, the innocent Kendrick you seen in the streetWith a basketball and some Now-and-Laters to eat,If I mentioned all of my skeletons, would you jump in the seat?Would you say my intelligence now is great relief?And its safe to say our next generation maybe could sleepWith dreams of being a lawyer or doctor, Instead of a boy with a chopper, that hold the cul-de-sac hostage?"

That verse from Kendrick Lamar's "mAAd city" shows off the inescapable duality of the black youth--the one that allows us to be viewed through one set of eyes as the "good" or "safe" kind of black through our personalities or manner of speech, while an entirely different pair could see us as merely gangsters or thugsjust for our clothing choices, even though more often than not we all have similar backgrounds, and any of us could be forced at any time to do less than savory things in order to survive …

I already did a brief "rating" thing during my
livestream earlier in the week, but I think these conferences deserve a bit
more of an in-depth look. These are kinda long so I'll be releasing them in chunks rather than in one mega-article.

We're about a week out from E3, the biggest annual game-related conference where all the big publishers get together and decide to show off their major titles for the next year and a half or so. You can tell because developers have been seemingly unable to shut up for the past week, as announcements and reveals for smaller (and some larger) games just keep pouring out.